Biogenesis proprietor Tony Bosch didn’t spend all his time cooking up elaborate doping procedures for MLB stars like Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun. As reported in Blood Sport, the new book on the Miami scandal, Bosch also had a huge network of regular clientele, from UM students to high schoolers…
CandaceWest.comDoes eating foie gras at Bistro 1902 sound like something you could enjoy? (Pro tip: If the answer is “No”, this job ain’t for you,) New Times Broward Palm Beach is looking for a restaurant critic. The ideal candidate will have experience both reporting about food and writing long-form restaurant…
All the Goldberg family wanted was to sit down for dinner on their Royal Caribbean cruise last summer. Gail and Joshua Goldberg had booked the cruise on the Freedom of the Seas to celebrate their grandmother’s 81st birthday and were looking forward to starting the trip with a nice meal…
Let’s be honest: July was a crappy month for Miami. Bizarrely, the bad news seemed to arrive every Friday in this, the sweltering summer suck-hole of the year. On Friday, July 4, a happy holiday became a horror show when four boaters died on Biscayne Bay. A week later, LeBron…
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Animal activists are claiming a victory today after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hit Miami Seaquarium with a pretty hefty fine for letting trainers work with Lolita the orca without proper safety precautions. In 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau died while she was swimming in a pool with an…
When Chris Bosh said he and his family are totally happy living in Miami, apparently he really meant it. Bosh’s back-up pad, a home he bought in LA’s Pacific Palisades back in 2012 for $9.45 million, is back on the market for a hefty $14.5 million. Bosh, who has one…
Rumors swirled online this morning after Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban president Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel, was listed on the passenger list of a plane that went missing earlier today in north Africa. The Air Algerie flight encountered rough weather and is believed to have crashed near the…
Earlier this summer Tom Rigby, a Sarasota resident, was fishing in a local creek when he felt a hard tug on his line. After a protracted fight, Rigby was able to pull the fish onto his boat, but he was stumped at his catch. The large, grayish fish with a…
Just two months after Gov. Rick Scott announced the suspension of North Miami’s mayor on suspicion of a mortgage-fraud scheme and a year after her campaign treasurer was wrapped up in a ballot fraud probe, North Miami politicians are gearing up for a new round of shenanigans in next month’s…
Yes, traffic is bad. Tourists can be awful. The humidity can be oppressive. Yet we’ve come to accept all of those things about living in Miami. That’s part of what we signed up for. Sometimes it’s the smaller annoyances that really make us want to catch the next flight to…
They were coming for him. At first, Nicholas Cutter could only see their shadows flitting behind buildings in the distance. Then he could feel their bullets thwacking into the walls around him. Finally, he could see them — men with AKs and rocket-propelled grenades. Dozens of them. Descending like locusts…
Paula Crews, a suburban mom with short black hair, dumps a stick of butter into a double boiler and stirs in her secret ingredient. Her 24-year-old son, John, waits expectantly at the white Formica counter in their West Broward kitchen, watching while his mom mixes the butter into a pot…
Dada 5000 — the Mohawked, muscled monolith born Dhafir Harris but better known as the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s backyard fisticuffs — spotted them through the window. It was July 5, and the promoter was chilling at home, the same “Famous Green House” where thousands of knuckle-busters and bloody noses…
It’s been a chaotic summer for Colombians. First, they watched their national soccer team win four straight games at the World Cup. Then los cafeteros were cruelly denied a trip to the semifinals by Brazil and a bogus referee. While Colombia was uniting around its team, however, it was also…
One morning in the summer of 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics were set to kick off, Juan Zapata, then a Republican Florida state representative, found himself having breakfast with Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. Someone floated the idea of a Chinese consulate in Miami. Zapata…
You should never drink and drive, but tomorrow if you find yourself saying things like, “No, I had only two — I think I’m OK to drive,” it might be an especially good time just to take a cab or catch a ride with a friend instead. A large-scale DUI…
Marco Rubio, a man who used to attend South Beach foam parties, is shifting toward full-out cultural conservative warrior mode as he prepares for his political future. In a speech today before the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, he stressed a need for “tolerance”…
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Dwyane Wade and former Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall run a summer sports academy for kids up in Illinois, but this summer it apparently turned into an episode of “Kids Say the Darndest Thing.” Apparently one young camper couldn’t help but ask Wade a common question of any Heat hater: “Why…
After some early hope this season, the Marlins will play their 100th game tonight and are marred in mediocrity. It’s actually an improvement over the past two seasons, but the team is still 6.5 games behind in the wildcard race. Rather than trying to beef up by making trades, the…
Who the hell is Adrian Wyllie? Well, he’s a military vet, an IT consultant and the host of a libertarian radio talk show in Pinellas County. He also might just be Charlie Crist’s worst nightmare. That’s because Wyllie is running for Florida governor on the Libertarian ticket and a new…
